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EPISODE · May 16, 2026 · 14 MIN

The grass is only sometimes greener!

from The Lydia McGrew Podcast · host Lydia McGrew Podcast

Have you heard this critique of the "green grass" undesigned coincidence between John 6:4 and Mark 6:39? Here's how it goes: "The green grass around the time of Passover doesn't help to confirm the reliability of John and Mark, because there are times other than Passover when the grass is green in the Holy Land." But we aren't saying that the green grass *predicts* that it's happening around Passover, only that "green grass" and "around Passover" are sufficiently positively relevant to each other that the two accounts confirm each other. Since there is not a large quantity of green grass in Galilee for most of the year, the point stands.Here is an Israeli, with certainly no axe to grind to confirm the Christian Gospels, talking about the "few precious months" of greenness in the Holy Land.Come to think of it, this is a sort of undesigned coincidence in and of itself!https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/a-hebrew-lesson-and-how-the-grass-is-sometimes-greener/

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